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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When we weigh costs and benefits, let's remember two things. The first is, having to wear a mask just isn't that much of a cost, no matter how much some people bitch about it, and no matter how much some people become emotionally committed to the idea that it's intolerable. Certainly not compared to the costs of dying of COVID, or getting long COVID, or having a friend or relative die of COVID, or having to work in a hospital caring for COVID, etc. The second is, when you don't wear a mask, you not only expose yourself to some additional risk, you also expose other people. Many people seem incapable of acknowledging or weighing that risk, in some cases because they're ignorant but in many cases because they are assholes. Not wearing a mask is a little like dumping garbage on your own lawn and saying, "it's my property so I'll decide whether it looks good," but it's also like dumping garbage on your neighbors' lawns and saying, "fuck all of you."
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So close, you just missed the analogy. It's not about dumping garbage on your neighbor's lawn, it's about tossing your bed pan's contents out the window in a crowded city. I mean, it's inconvenient to do anything else, but one thing you can be sure of, is the shit will land on someone else, not you, so fuck 'em.
The conflation of mask mandates and lockdowns shows us where we are in this. Are we really comparing Pol Pot to wearing a little mask?
